Archive for month: September, 2015

Cloudwick to Demo OpenStack® Private Cloud Service Flexibility and Agility Live in Booth

New York City – September 29, 2015 – Strata + Hadoop World, Booth #430 – Cloudwick, the leading Big Data-as-a-Service provider to the Global 1000, announced today that it will be demonstrating Hadoop and Cassandra with Spark on the Cisco Metapod™ infrastructure platform, showcasing how the OpenStack®-based private cloud delivers the benefits of a public cloud experience behind the corporate firewall. Cloudwick will demonstrate the service flexibility and agility that Cisco Metapod™ provides and how enterprises can gain competitive advantage in their own data center.

At its booth (booth 430), Cloudwick will spin up Cloudera, Hortonworks and DataStax clusters in the Cisco Metapod™ environment, and demonstrate changes and updates, supporting evidence of its simplicity and accelerated time to provision and value for enterprises. Cloudwick One® services on Cisco Metapod™ enable IT to provide business with simplified and accelerated big data services that deliver data-driven competitive advantage.

Cisco Metapod™ delivers a public cloud experience, privately. Cisco takes care of what’s “behind the curtain” to allow developers to build and operate amazing apps. Based on OpenStack®, Cisco Metapod™ provides customers with availability zones that are engineered and remotely operated 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from Cisco’s secure operations center. With Metapod™, Cisco takes responsibility for running the cloud, allowing IT departments use the real-time hypervisor and dashboard to provide a world-class cloud platform for developers.

“As a preferred partner to Hortonworks, Cloudera, DataStax and Databricks, Cloudwick has more open source big data systems experience than any other service provider,” said Mani Chhabra, founder and CEO of Cloudwick. “With Cisco and its Metapod solution, we are delivering the agility and flexibility of public cloud– privately. This solution will help customers that need the value of the cloud and haven’t yet been able to find a solution to meet their requirements. They’ll derive maximum business value from their data without having to manage the underlying platform themselves.”

SANTA CLARA, CA – September 23, 2015 – Cassandra Summit 2015 (Booth 125) – Cloudwick, the leading Big Data-as-a-Service provider to the Global 1000, announced today that it is working with DataStax, the company that delivers Apache Cassandra™ to the enterprise, to bring many of its DataStax Enterprise (DSE) healthcare, financial, retail and manufacturing customers successfully to production ahead of schedule with its Cloudwick One® service. Like most global enterprises, these customers lack internal big data resources, specifically Cassandra experts, and require the experience and expertise offered by Cloudwick’s big data engineers, administrators and scientists.

As the leading DataStax Big Data-as-a-Service provider, Cloudwick works with organizations to bring them from pilot to production, accelerating time to value and meeting go-live production objectives. Cloudwick has the most Cassandra experience and expertise in the industry, helping enterprises migrate to DSE, providing data cleanup, and delivering performance tuning so businesses can focus on maximizing the value of their data.

Cloudwick’s offering, Cloudwick One®, has provided DataStax users with cloud offload, database migration to on-premises private cloud or public cloud, including AWS and Microsoft Azure, performance stabilization and best practices implementation. As a result, these organizations enjoy the agility, scalability and flexibility of the private or public cloud for growth and change.

“Cloudwick’s depth and breadth of knowledge in big data, and specifically with DataStax Enterprise, enables our customers to get to production quickly and successfully,” said Rox Kerner, VP Global Alliances, DataStax. “End users with high-volume, business-critical applications specifically require the in-depth expertise of the big data administrators, data scientists and engineers at Cloudwick.”

“As an open source Big Data-as-a-Service leader and DataStax Gold partner, our combined customers are assured of experience, expertise as well as the performance, availability and security of the Cassandra platform,” said Mani Chhabra, founder and CEO of Cloudwick. “Collaborating closely allows enterprises to move more swiftly to production and accelerate time to value. The clients mentioned here are just a few examples of the success of our Pilot-to-Production success.”

About Cloudwick One®

For a pilot to production DSE project, Cloudwick provides the enterprise with a remote DSE DevOps consultant Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Pacific Time. This consultant helps organizations accelerate its Cassandra journey and realize these benefits:

Reduce Cassandra application development time and effort with expert DSE support